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tlacatecco.

Headword: 
tlacatecco.
Principal English Translation: 

residence of a member of the high nobility, the name of a particular temple dedicated to the god Huitzilopochtli (see Karttunen); also, a house of fasting linked to Huitzilopochtli (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācatēcco
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑteːkko
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCATĒCCO (tla:cate:cco) residence of a member of the high nobility, the name of a particular temple dedicated to the god Huitzilopochtli / templo dedicado al dios Uitzilopochtli, cuya consagración tuvo lugar bajo el reinado del monarca Ahuitzotl (S) [(2)Bf.10r,10v]. See TLĀCATĒUC-TLI, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 252.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in neçaoalcalli, itocaiocan tlacochcalco, ioan tlacatecco, in jchan vitzilopuchtli = the house of fasting, a place named Tlacochcalco, or Tlacatecco, the house of Uitzilopochtli (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 63.